“It’s a medium that’s the closest thing to looking through someone else’s eyes.”
Ben Passmore by Audra McNamee
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Ben Passmore is the author of the ongoing comic book series Daygloayhole, as well as the Eisner Award-nominated and Ignatz Award-winning comic collection Your Black Friend: and Other Strangers. He also wrote and illustrated Sports Is Hell (Koyama Press), which won a 2021 Eisner Award for Best Single Issue Comics. Passmore also collaborated with Ezra Claytan Daniels on BTTM FDRS (Fantagraphics). His forthcoming book, These Black Arms to Hold You Up, is a graphic history of six black activists and their armed resistance against racism and the police state. Ben contributes graphic reportage and political comics to publications such as The Nib and the New York Times. He lives in Philadelphia.
